Contract Staffing
Independent Contractors can be some of the best monitors and offer flexibility and scalability that employees just can't match. They also tend to be more experienced and may even be considered experts in their field. But you do tend to get what you pay for: if you offer a low rate that is not competitive, your only applicants may be either inexperienced, only hanging around until they get a better offer, or both.
As anyone who has staffed contractors can tell you, it can be a double-edged sword: for every great one we know probably a couple or more that either won't be in the industry long term or certainly won't be a contractor by this time next year. As the barriers to entry have been eased and the demand for contract monitoring has gone up, just about anyone can hang out a shingle and call themselves an independent contractor. Clients have to work to maintain control and still get a professional you can trust. We can help you navigate the potential minefield and even show you some diamonds in the rough.
Permanent Placement
If you have enough work to keep them busy and optimize your economies of scale, permanent staff are the way to go. But if you outsource to many vendors simultaneously, you'll get buried under resumes and many will be duplicates - then it'll be your job to go through them all - shouldn't that be what you pay a staffing company for? Better yet, if you could have clinical research professionals screen them before they even get to your HR staff, you could greatly reduce your time-to-hire and even influence the time to market for your product.
That's what we do at Oncolgy Monitors. Rather than start your search by making cold calls or sending a blaster e-mail to everyone in the database, we begin by networking with colleagues and work out from there. This allows us to match the skill set you need with a CRA of the right experience level and career path, rather than starting with warm bodies of anyone that's available. We realize that the CRA role varies greatly from sponsor to CRO, from Pharma to device, so we look for compatibilities with what you have do offer. Each position is different, and it depends on what you need and what the candidate is looking for to make the relationship.
